Cheese comes from plants & fish fingers are made of chicken

[Genersis]

Fish fingers - who knows what those really come from anyway? Isn't factory pressed foods a great mystery to begin with?

Ignorance is not stupidity...

Birds Eye seem to proudly print on the box "100% fish fillet".
Worryingly vague...

[Ekwarph]

Oh the ignorance! According to a recent survey, some British schoolkids believe that cheese is made from plants, fish fingers are made of chicken and tomatoes grow underground. What is the British education system doing?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...41771.html

I knew tomatoes didn't grow underground cause they directly grow in ketchup bottles. But except that, I thought all of that was true

[Dan1980]

The British Education System is a mess.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Not too long ago there was something about 'Pink slime' being used for chicken nuggets and other products.... ew?

[Dan1980]

Not too long ago there was something about 'Pink slime' being used for chicken nuggets and other products.... ew?

That sounds horrible BA.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Underground - That's the subway system in London - no? Maybe tomatoes are raised in the tubes of the subway?

I'm trying to think back to when I learned about tomatoes being a fruit that grow on a vine, and their cousin potatoes which is a tuber that grows in the ground. That may also be around the time I learned that these two are part of the Nightshade family as well. ? No I think learning the relationship between the two wasn't until I went to live with my father and I learned a lot about organic gardening, understanding that tomatoes and potatoes cannot be planted together nor in the same soil for three years due to sharing too many pests and diseases.

It has to be pretty early. There was the 6 months when I was 6-7 that I visited my father and he had an extensive garden in the back yard and I recall dimly his showing me all of the different plants and my being somewhat amazed at it all.

I personally do not recall any elementary school studies on the vegetables and where they came from.

Cheese is even more difficult for me to recall.

Do schools teach us where our food comes from? I know in High school there was formal farming classes in the rural school I went too and extension of the state agricultural department. I honestly can't recall any classes or studies earlier than that for teaching where dairy products come from, what plants do what and produce whatever....

[Wade]

Any idea how he managed to make that connection?

Maybe he thought Lincoln liberated the slaves of desire?

[LONDONER]

Underground - That's the subway system in London - no? Maybe tomatoes are raised in the tubes of the subway?

I'm trying to think back to when I learned about tomatoes being a fruit that grow on a vine, and their cousin potatoes which is a tuber that grows in the ground. That may also be around the time I learned that these two are part of the Nightshade family as well. ? No I think learning the relationship between the two wasn't until I went to live with my father and I learned a lot about organic gardening, understanding that tomatoes and potatoes cannot be planted together nor in the same soil for three years due to sharing too many pests and diseases.

It has to be pretty early. There was the 6 months when I was 6-7 that I visited my father and he had an extensive garden in the back yard and I recall dimly his showing me all of the different plants and my being somewhat amazed at it all.

I personally do not recall any elementary school studies on the vegetables and where they came from.

Cheese is even more difficult for me to recall.

Do schools teach us where our food comes from? I know in High school there was formal farming classes in the rural school I went too and extension of the state agricultural department. I honestly can't recall any classes or studies earlier than that for teaching where dairy products come from, what plants do what and produce whatever....

When I was a kid (and that was along time ago) there was almost nothing that could be called pre-prepared food, everything was prepared at home from scratch and everything was organic. I don't remember either being taught at school about where food comes from but I suppose that some time spent on a farm allowed me to absorb that knowledge naturally, almost through the skin.

[MisterTinkles]

Oh the ignorance! According to a recent survey, some British schoolkids believe that cheese is made from plants, fish fingers are made of chicken and tomatoes grow underground. What is the British education system doing?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...41771.html

They are doing the exact same thing as the Amurreekin skool seestim.
Only hire overpaid babysitters.

I bet these kids over here are dumber than the ones you got over there!!!!

[MisterTinkles]

This is how you weed out the stupid people and shoot them off to the moon.

Put them in a grocery store, tell them to go find a block of cheese.
The ones that head off to the vegetable section get shot off to the moon.